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A. LOCKER.

' ATMOSPHERIC GAS BURNER FOR HEATING PURPOSES. No. 364,270.

Patented June '7, 1887.

FIG. I.

IIVVEIVTOH ATTORNEY N. PETERS. PhulwLiMgnphM, Wauhington. 0.0-

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALFRED LOCKER, OF NEYV YORK, N.. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE E. P. GLEASON MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

ATMOSPHERIC-GAS BURNER-FOR HEATING' PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part: of Letters Patent No. 364,270, dated June 7, 1887.

Serial No. 202,155. (Nomodel) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALFRED LocKER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, county and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Atmospheric-G as Burners for Heating Purposes, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to such gas-burners as are commonly called Bunsen burners, and has for its object cheapening the cost of 1nanufacture and providing a convenient way for securing its parts together, as will more fully appear, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan View with the top plate off; Fig. 2, a view of the under side of the top plate. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal central section. Fig. 4 is a similar section without the top plate.

Like letters designate like parts.

The bowl or casing A, inclosing lhe mixing and generating chamber B, has a bar, 0, joined to each of its opposite inner sides and crossing the chamber diametrically. In the center, and concentric with the bowl B, the bar 0 is pierced with a hole which is threaded to re eeive the screw G, which, as is shown at 0, Fig. 3, passes through the top plate, D, the center of which is pierced with a suitable hole. The top plate, D, is provided on its under side with short radial ribs (1 d, extending inward from its circumference. These ribs (1 d serve to raise the disk or body of the top plate, D, ofl' the rimof the bowl A, on which they rest, thus forming openings 0 0, through which the atmospheric gas may issue, and from which it will, when lighted, rise in a non-lu1ninous flame.

The tube or shank E may be made of any desired length and form, and provided at its base with a nipple, f, and any suitable means of attaching a gaspipe. In its sides, about opposite to the point of the nipple f,openings f are made for the admission of air.

In operation the gas supplied passes in through the nipple f, and as it rushes onward through the shank E air is drawn in through ing aininlets f, bowl'B, and cross-bar 0, all V cast in one piece, in combination with a plate, D, and screw 0, substantially as described.

2. An atmospheric-gas burner, consisting of a gas-inlet nozzle,f, mixing-chamber E, having air-inlets f, bowl B, and crossbar 0, combined with a plate, as D, to which it is c011- nected by means of screw 0, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I have signed my name, in pres ence of two witnesses, this 27th day of March, 1886. 1

ALFRED LOCKER.

Witnesses:

O. F. KELLEY, D. J. Siam. 

